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Luxury apparel retailer Brooks Brothers wants to bond with its customers over a good steak dinner.

The chain store announced this month that it plans to open its first steakhouse in New York City by next year, the New York Post is reporting. “Makers and Merchants,” the name of the restaurant, will open close to the Brooks Brothers flagship store on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. The restaurant is taking over vacant space that was once used for a Brooks Brothers women’s line.

The steakhouse is tentatively scheduled to open in summer 2014.

Brooks Brothers has more than 300 retail store locations around the world, including one at Pineapple Square in downtown Sarasota.

Photo by Rod Millington, Herald-Tribune staff.

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